Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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Publishing Charlotte Smith
Her publisher, Cadell , paid her more than £260 for this novel, which she dedicated to minor royalty in the person of the Duchess of Cumberland .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
1: 485
She had attempted negotiation, instead of...
Publishing Elizabeth Helme
EH switched publishers again, to Sampson Low , for another four-volume novel, Albert; or, The Wilds of Strathnavern (which Minerva Press later reprinted).
Some years after this novel appeared, in 1814, all the dwelling-houses in...
Publishing Isabella Kelly
As the author of Madeline, of [sic] the Castle of Montgomery, IK published through Minerva her second novel, The Abbey of St. Asaph, in three volumes.
qtd. in
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
Publishing Eliza Parsons
EP switched from Hookham to William Lane of the Minerva Press for her second, heavily didactic novel, The Errors of Education.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 3 (1791): 234
Publishing Susanna Watts
Maria Edgeworth wrote of SW on meeting her: This poor girl sold a novel in four volumes for ten guineas to Lane of the Minerva Press .
Watts, Susanna. Scrapbook. 11 Feb. 1834.
Publishing Elizabeth Gunning
Another edition followed from the Minerva Press in 1812, which is the only one listed by OCLC WorldCat.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 329
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Sarah Green alleged the following year that this was not original, but a translation...
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
The Minerva Press edition of 1801, not listed in OCLC WorldCat or the British Library catalogue, survives in a few copies (one of which is in the University of Alberta library at Edmonton). An...
Publishing Elizabeth Bonhote
Apparently this was her second novel; the title-page of Olivia mentions one entitled Hortensia, which seems not to survive. The Rambles of Mr. Frankly was advertised as soon to appear in July. By July...
Publishing Elizabeth Helme
This was advertised at the beginning of April, and reviewed in May (later than EH 's other book of this year, Plutarch's Lives Abridged). It was reprinted by A. K. Newman at the Minerva Press
Publishing Isabella Kelly
IK 's third novel, The Ruins of Avondale Priory, was advertised as newly published with the Minerva Press in three volumes.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
Publishing Catherine Cuthbertson
It came out in four volumes from Robinson , but many copies were burned in a warehouse fire. After this The Lady's Magazine reprinted it as a serial beginning in February 1804.
Mayo, Robert. The English Novel in the Magazines, 1740-1815. Northwestern University Press, 1962.
232
Robinson re-issued...
Publishing Amelia Beauclerc
Perhaps because of the mixup caused by Minerva , AB chose Crosby to publish her next novel, The Castle of Tariffa; or, The Self-Banished Man—they published as well her next, Alinda; or, The Child...
Publishing Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
An advertisement listed the novel as forthcoming on 30 June. The next year saw both a Dublin edition and a Minerva Press one (which bibliographer Deborah McLeod knew only from an advertisement, with the author...
Publishing Eliza Kirkham Mathews
It was published in two volumes. A Minerva edition is undated; a New York edition came out in 1808.
Publishing Anna Maria Mackenzie
Anna Maria Johnson had a novel entitled Monmouth : A Tale, Founded on Historical Facts advertised under this name as soon to be published by William Lane of the Minerva Press —even though she had...

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